HUNGARY A POLICE STATE
Received Wednesday, 11.30 a.m. BUDAPEST, Ju'ne 17. M. Deso Sulyok, leader of the Freedom Party, said today that he would arrange no more political ipeeches, risking open brawls with the Communists, unless M. Laslo Rajk, Communist Minister of the Interior, guara'nteed the party freedom of assembly. He added that his party mem'bers did not want to start a civil" war. Mr. Sulyok said that the brawl y.esterday at Szeged, where the Communists broke up a Freedom Party meeting, "confirmed what I openiy declared in Parliament — that Hungary is a poliee state where there is no freedom of speech or assembly."
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 June 1947, Page 5
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